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Jewish Reform Movement in the US

The Evolution of the Non-Liturgical Parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Haggadah

By: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides

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Jewish Reform Movement in the US

The Evolution of the Non-Liturgical Parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Haggadah

By: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides

This volume examines the development of the non-liturgical parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Haggadot. Through an understanding of the changes in American Jewish educational patterns and the CCAR's theology, it explores how the CCAR Haggadah was changed over time to address the needs of the constituency. While there have been many studies of the Haggadah and its development over the course of Jewish history, there has been no such study of the non-liturgical parts of the Haggadah that reflect the needs of the audience it reaches. How the CCAR, the first and largest of American-born Judaisms, addressed the changing needs of its members through its literature for the Passover Seder reveals much about the development of the movement. This in turn provides for the readers of this book an understanding of how American Judaism has developed.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110524708

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9783110524703

Child Psychopathology

By: Barry H. Schneider,Paul David Hastings,Amanda Guyer,Mara Brendgen,Eli Cwinn

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Child Psychopathology

By: Barry H. Schneider,Paul David Hastings,Amanda Guyer,Mara Brendgen,Eli Cwinn

This textbook provides authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the classification, causes, treatment and prevention of psychological disorders in children.

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Cambridge University Press

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052119377X

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9780521193771

All Her Fault

The breathlessly twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

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All Her Fault

The breathlessly twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

**Shortlisted for Crime Fiction Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021** 'A heart-stopping tale . . . Stunningly original' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month 'Grips from the first page and keeps upping the stakes . . . I didn't predict any of the twists and turns.' Sarah Pearse, bestselling author of The Sanatorium ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event. Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed . . . IN A COMMUNITY FULL OF SECRETS, WHO IS REALLY AT FAULT? 'Sharp, sophisticated, and full of suspense - everything you need for a perfect summer read.' Cara Hunter, bestselling author of Close to Home 'Andrea Mara's tight plotting and convincing characterisation make her books both compelling and intriguing.' Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait 'A wonderfully twisty nightmare of a domestic thriller.' Emma Curtis, author of Keep Her Quiet 'A cracking read from a writer at the top of her game - and wow . . . that twist floored me!' Claire Allan, author of Her Name Was Rose 'Someone has taken Marissa's child; the fun in this fiendishly twisting narrative is trying to work out who that might be.' Irish Independent Everyone is gossiping about All Her Fault: 'WOW WOW WOW! I have not read a book this thrilling in ages' * * * * * 'So many twists and turns, and what a shock at the end' * * * * * 'This is one of the best thriller books I have read this year . . . I was totally blown away' * * * * * 'You must read this book' * * * * * 'The final chapter is the perfect payoff' * * * * * 'A great twisty read that kept me on the edge of my seat' * * * * * PRE-ORDER It Should Have Been You, the unputdownable new thriller from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Mara

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Random House

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1473589444

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Worth The Burn (Worth Series Book 8)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

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Worth The Burn (Worth Series Book 8)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

Book 8 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Worth Series A Slow Burn Burns Hottest Sarah Ryan has carved out a living for herself in the Copper Country as a premier candle maker. She has family and friends in the area, and no closer friend than Reilly—her BFF since they were five. What Sarah doesn’t have right now is a man in her life. Not that she needs one. But perhaps she wants one. Reilly Turkonen is about to embark on a new career flipping houses with his partner Jess. Things are lining up well for him, until he finds his girlfriend’s bags packed and an ultimatum thrown his way. Suddenly Reilly finds himself very single. After a drunken night that they both want to forget (and one of them does!), Reilly and Sarah contemplate turning their Best Friends Forever status to one of Friends With Benefits. Are they willing to give up what they have for what could be? They’re about to find out if it’s…Worth The Burn This book contains 2-3 fairly graphic love scenes and the F-bomb is detonated once or twice. If it was a movie, it would be rated R. The Worth Series thus far: 1. Worth the Weight (Lizzie and Finn) 2. Worth the Drive (Katie and Dario 3. Worth the Fall (Alison and Petey) 4. Worth the Effort (Deni and Sawyer) 4.5 Totally Worth Christmas - novella (Phoebe and Charlie) 5. Worth The Price (Liv and Twain) 6. Worth The Lies (Kelsey and Huck) 7. Worth The Flight (Jess and Zeke) 8. Worth The Burn (Sarah and Reilly)

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Copper Country Press LLC

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1940993830

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9781940993836

Worth The Lies (The Worth Series Book 6)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

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Worth The Lies (The Worth Series Book 6)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

Book 6 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Worth Series Oh, what a tangled web… Kelsey Cameron has spent the past four years thinking about a man she saw for only a minute. But it was a good minute. Huck Beck is getting a second chance at fulfilling a dream. And he won’t do anything to mess that up. Even if every time he looks at Kelsey he desperately wants to do just that. Forced to pretend to be a married couple, Kelsey and Huck have to lie to Huck’s family and friends. But in the end, are they really just lying to themselves? Is the possibility of finding love…Worth The Lies? This book contains 2-3 fairly graphic love scenes and the F-bomb is detonated somewhat frequently. If it was a movie, it would be rated R. The Worth Series thus far: 1. Worth the Weight (Lizzie and Finn) 2. Worth the Drive (Katie and Dario 3. Worth the Fall (Alison and Petey) 4. Worth the Effort (Deni and Sawyer) 4.5 Totally Worth Christmas - novella (Phoebe and Charlie) 5. Worth The Price (Liv and Twain) 6. Worth The Lies (Kelsey and Huck) 7. Worth The Flight (Jess and Zeke) 8. Worth The Burn (Sarah and Reilly)

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Copper Country Press LLC

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1940993873

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9781940993874

Worth The Price (Worth Series Book 5)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

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Worth The Price (Worth Series Book 5)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

Book 5 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Worth Series Can Love Grow Again? Liv Beck loved her husband desperately, but that wasn’t enough to keep him. A failed marriage has taught her what’s important, and how to get what she wants. Unfortunately, she’ll need her ex-husband’s help to get it. Twain Beck has dealt with the guilt of his divorce for seven years. Now he can finally make it up to Liv by giving her the one thing she wants most. But is the price too high? Spending time together reminds Liv how much she always loved Twain, but she knows she needs to protect her heart this time. Twain can’t understand these new feelings he’s developing for Liv. Could he be falling in love with his ex-wife? Is trying again…Worth The Price? This book contains 2-3 fairly graphic love scenes and the F-bomb is detonated once or twice. If it was a movie, it would be rated R. The Worth Series thus far: 1. Worth the Weight (Lizzie and Finn) 2. Worth the Drive (Katie and Dario 3. Worth the Fall (Alison and Petey) 4. Worth the Effort (Deni and Sawyer) 4.5 Totally Worth Christmas - novella (Phoebe and Charlie) 5. Worth The Price (Liv and Twain) 6. Worth The Lies (Kelsey and Huck) 7. Worth The Flight (Jess and Zeke) 8. Worth The Burn (Sarah and Reilly)

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Copper Country Press LLC

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1940993946

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9781940993942

If These Walls Could Talk

Stories From the New York Giants' Sidelines, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ernie Palladino,John Mara

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If These Walls Could Talk

Stories From the New York Giants' Sidelines, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ernie Palladino,John Mara

Chronicling what can arguably be called the most productive years in New York Giants football—with nine playoff appearances and two Super Bowl titles—this work is an insiders-account of the last 20 years of the team's history. A behind-the-scenes look at the era from the players' and coaches' perspectives, this guide highlights coaches Dan Reeves, Jim Fassel, and Tom Coughlin as well as the team's brightest stars, from Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor, and Michael Strahan to Eli Manning and Victor Cruz. From the locker room to the press box, this book covers all of the successes and failures, elation and embarrassment of recent Giants history, making it essential reading for any fan.

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Triumph Books

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1623683394

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9781623683399

Worth The Flight (Worth Series Book 7)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

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Worth The Flight (Worth Series Book 7)

A Copper Country Romance

By: Mara Jacobs

Book 7 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Worth Series Ready For Takeoff! Jessica Chapman has rebuilt her life. A painful divorce behind her, she’s now exactly where she wants to be as a park ranger in the Copper Country. She doesn’t need—or want—anything more. Zeke Hampton has come home after years in the Navy as a fighter jet pilot. He’s ready to settle down, which includes finding that someone special. But what if the woman he wants doesn’t want anything more from him than a one-night stand? Jess is dazzled by Zeke, but she’s been dazzled before. For her, trust will not come easy. Zeke realizes that Jess’s fears could make her take flight again. Can this fighter pilot hit his target? Will finding each other be…Worth The Flight? This book contains 2-3 fairly graphic love scenes and the F-bomb is detonated once or twice. If it was a movie, it would be rated R. The Worth Series thus far: 1. Worth the Weight (Lizzie and Finn) 2. Worth the Drive (Katie and Dario 3. Worth the Fall (Alison and Petey) 4. Worth the Effort (Deni and Sawyer) 4.5 Totally Worth Christmas - novella (Phoebe and Charlie) 5. Worth The Price (Liv and Twain) 6. Worth The Lies (Kelsey and Huck) 7. Worth The Flight (Jess and Zeke) 8. Worth The Burn (Sarah and Reilly)

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1940993865

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9781940993867

Placemaking with Children and Youth

Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities

By: Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer

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Placemaking with Children and Youth

Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities

By: Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children’s global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students’ lives and to create better cities for all ages.

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New Village Press

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1613321023

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9781613321027

Narrating Nature

Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing

By: Mara Jill Goldman

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Narrating Nature

Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing

By: Mara Jill Goldman

The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816541949

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9780816541942

Skin Color, Power, and Politics in America

By: Mara Cecilia Ostfeld,Nicole Yadon

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Skin Color, Power, and Politics in America

By: Mara Cecilia Ostfeld,Nicole Yadon

A person’s skin color affects their life experiences including income, educational attainment, health outcomes, exposure to discrimination, interactions with the criminal justice system and one’s sense of ethnoracial group belonging. But, do these disparate experiences affect the relationship between skin color and political views? In Skin Color, Power, and Politics in America, political scientists Mara Ostfeld and Nicole Yadon explore the relationship between skin color and political views in the U.S. among Latino, Black, and White Americans. They examine how skin color influences an individual’s politics and whether a person’s political views influence how they assess their own skin color. Ostfeld and Yadon surveyed over 1,300 people about their political views, including party affiliation, their opinions on welfare, and the importance of speaking English in the U.S. The authors created a matrix grounded in their “Roots of Race” framework, which predicts the relationship between skin color and political attitudes for each ethnoracial group based on the blurriness of the group’s boundaries and historical levels of privilege. They draw upon three distinct measures of skin color to conceptualize the relationship between skin color and political views: “Machine-Rated Skin Color,” measured with a light-reflectance meter; “Self-Assessed Skin Color,” using the Yadon-Ostfeld Skin Color Scale; and “Skin Color Discrepancy,” the difference between one’s Machine-Rated and Self-Assessed Skin Color. Ostfeld and Yadon examine patterns that emerge among these measures, and their relationships with life experiences and political stances. Among Latinos, a group with relatively blurry group boundaries and low levels of historical privilege, the authors find a robust relationship between political views and Self-Assessed Skin Color. Latinos who overestimate the lightness of their skin color are more likely to hold conservative views on current racialized political issues, such as policing. Latinos who overestimate the darkness of their skin color, on the other hand, are more likely to hold liberal political views. As America’s major political parties remain divided on issues of race, this suggests that for Latinos, self-reported skin color is used as a means of aligning oneself with valued political coalitions. African Americans, another group with low levels of historical privilege but with more clearly defined group boundaries, demonstrated no significant relationship between skin color and political attitudes. Thus, the lived experiences associated with being African American appeared to supersede the differences in life experiences due to skin color. Whites, a group with more historical privilege and increasingly blurry group boundaries, showed a clear relationship between machine-assessed skin color and attitudes on political issues. Those with darker Machine-Rated Skin Color are more likely to hold conservative views, suggesting that they are responding to the threat of losing their privilege in a multicultural society. At a time when the U.S. is both more diverse and politically divided, Skin Color, Power, and Politics in Americais a timely account of the ways in which skin color and politics are intertwined.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610449126

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9781610449120

Linguistic Analysis

From Data to Theory

By: Annarita Puglielli,Mara Frascarelli

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Linguistic Analysis

From Data to Theory

By: Annarita Puglielli,Mara Frascarelli

The volume is a reconsideration of the classic topics of linguistic analysis from a comparative-typological perspective. Data from over seventy languages are considered in their universal and language-specific aspects. Together, they highlight the crucial interactions at the different levels of grammar (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and pragmatics) in the structural organization of the sentence.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110222507

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9783110222500

All in Your Head

Making Sense of Pediatric Pain

By: Mara Buchbinder

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All in Your Head

Making Sense of Pediatric Pain

By: Mara Buchbinder

Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another’s internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain—including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors—and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social.

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University of California Press

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0520285220

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9780520285224

Pivotal Tuesdays

Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century

By: Margaret O'Mara

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Pivotal Tuesdays

Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century

By: Margaret O'Mara

From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections—1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992—using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812247469

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9780812247466

Becoming a Reflective Mathematics Teacher

A Guide for Observations and Self-Assessment

By: Alice F. Artzt,Eleanor Armour-Thomas,Frances R. Curcio,Theresa J. Gurl

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Becoming a Reflective Mathematics Teacher

A Guide for Observations and Self-Assessment

By: Alice F. Artzt,Eleanor Armour-Thomas,Frances R. Curcio,Theresa J. Gurl

Ideal for preservice mathematics teachers who are taking methods courses or are student teaching, this research-based, activity-oriented guide offers a highly effective framework for teacher reflection and self-assessment. Highlighting inquiry-based, learner-centered teaching and grounded in a cognitive perspective, Becoming a Reflective Teacher of Mathematics, Third Edition features: Detailed observation instruments for observing other teachers Reflective activities that provide a structure for beginning teachers to think about their teaching Guidelines and instruments for supervisors to use when observing, conferencing with, and assessing beginning or student teachers The Third Edition of Becoming a Reflective Teacher of Mathematics is aligned with the latest standards for teaching mathematics including the Common Core State Standards-Mathematics, and the latest assessments for mathematics teacher certification which place a high priority on reflective practice. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the Third Edition continues to provide preservice and in-service mathematics teachers with practical ideas for developing and honing reflective and self-analytical skills needed to advance and improve instruction.

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Routledge

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1317691989

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9781317691983

Small Schools, Big Ideas

The Essential Guide to Successful School Transformation

By: Mara Benitez,Jill Davidson,Laura Flaxman,Ted Sizer,Nancy Faust Sizer

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Small Schools, Big Ideas

The Essential Guide to Successful School Transformation

By: Mara Benitez,Jill Davidson,Laura Flaxman,Ted Sizer,Nancy Faust Sizer

Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students for this century's challenges and opportunities. Filled with inspirational stories and illustrative examples from schools that have successfully implemented CES principles and practices, Small Schools, Big Ideas offers information and inspiration needed to: Transform schools in order to achieve equitable outcomes for all students Understand various school design options Establish school vision, mission, and goals to raise educational expectations and results Develop transformational leadership Cultivate a professional learning community Implement student-centered teaching, learning, and curricula Build productive relationships with families and communities Establish strategies for sustainability These recommendations and proven strategies can help educators transform their schools to become truly equitable, personalized, and academically challenging.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470615532

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9780470615539

Compassion, Inc.

How Corporate America Blurs the Line Between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help

By: Mara Einstein

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Compassion, Inc.

How Corporate America Blurs the Line Between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help

By: Mara Einstein

Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing - American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74 per cent. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates in this penetrating analysis why the answer is a resounding "No"! In "Compassion, Inc", she outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. She takes us through the unseen ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. She also discusses companies that truly do make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to.

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Univ of California Press

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0520266528

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9780520266520

From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions

Scandinavian languages as a case study

By: Mara Frascarelli,Giorgia Di Lorenzo

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From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions

Scandinavian languages as a case study

By: Mara Frascarelli,Giorgia Di Lorenzo

This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as the causee is not only the subject of the lexical verb, but also a participant that is related to the whole event. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that the realization of causatives implies a crucial interplay with the pseudo-relative construction, a much-debated structure as well. Data from Scandinavian languages are highlighted, through the results of an experimental test on the scope of negation and adverbs supporting the present analysis. The book offers a cross-linguistic perspective as it discusses the relevant constructions in languages including Italian, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027257310

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9789027257314

Mews Items

Amazing But True Cat Stories

By: Allan Zullo,Mara Bovsun

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Mews Items

Amazing But True Cat Stories

By: Allan Zullo,Mara Bovsun

Mews Items celebrates the enigmatic nature of the cat with more than 150 amazing and astounding stories that will leave cat lovers of all ages clawing for more.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740750429

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9780740750427

Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Amy C Balfour,Gregor Clark,Ned Friary,Paula Hardy,Caroline Sieg,Mara Vorhees

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Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Amy C Balfour,Gregor Clark,Ned Friary,Paula Hardy,Caroline Sieg,Mara Vorhees

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, you can cruise Lake Champlain on a schooner, pack a picnic in the Berkshires, or take a Vermont farm tour, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips: Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers Connecticut, Berkshires, Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, White Mountains, Portland, Interior Maine, and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips is perfect for exploring New England fall foliage in the classic American way - by road trip! Planning a New England Fall Foliage trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's New England guide, our most comprehensive guide to New England, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems, or check out Best of USA, a photo-rich guide to the destination's most popular attractions. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Everybody Eats There

By: William Stadiem,Mara Gibbs

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Everybody Eats There

By: William Stadiem,Mara Gibbs

If you love restaurants and you love to travel, this book will be your bible! From the private tatami rooms at Ten-Ichi in Tokyo to the sidewalk tables at Da Silvano in New York City, EVERYBODY EATS THERE: Inside the World's Legendary Restaurants by William Stadiem and Mara Gibbs is the ultimate tour of the liveliest, most beautiful, most delicious, most glamorous, most exclusive 100 restaurants on earth-and how they got that way. Stadiem and Gibbs reveal the mystique and excitement of the world's most fabulous eateries that are packed with A-listers every night. Funny, acerbic, totally in-the-know, EVERYBODY EATS THERE is part travelogue, part social commentary to give readers the real inside dish. Dine topless with Pamela Anderson in St. Tropez, share roast suckling pig with Bill Clinton in Madrid, eat the best Italian food on earth in San Paolo, party with The Stones in Tokyo, join the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a Wild West saloon and get picked up by Warren Beatty in Los Angeles. EVERYBODY EATS THERE weaves together lavish celebrity stories and incisive biographies of the famed chefs and restaurateurs with descriptions of the food that will whet appetites and jump-start plans for future dining excursions. Stadiem and Gibbs-with their discerning palates and social antennae-tell us what to eat, what to wear and how to behave once we make it in. Most guidebooks are about one city, or one country, and overload you with bad choices. EVERYBODY EATS THERE looks at restaurants as one global food club. And we're invited to join in. The result-an engrossing read on the history of modern dining. Read how: Al Capone embraces JOE'S STONE CRAB in Miami as his favorite dining spot Henri Soule jumps ship after the 1939 World's Fair and invents Manhattan snob French cuisine at LE PAVILION Ernest Hemingway turns readers into foodies by mythologizing CASA BOTIN in Madrid and HARRY'S BAR in Venice Hairdresser Michael Chow opens the first MR CHOW in London during the swinging sixties. It was architecturally famous for its firehouse staircase for looking up miniskirts DAVE in Paris pushes the envelope of snob appeal by serving take-out level Chinese fare to the world's chic-est crowd Princess Diana anoints SAN LORENZO as London's royal trattoria Alice Waters builds a special bathroom for future presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at CHEZ PANISSE And much, much more! The dream tour, EVERYBODY EATS THERE reveals the juiciest details from the backstories to the back rooms, from what's on the menus to what's even better off, from the glamorous (and sometimes scandalous) clientele to the high-powered chefs. And now, we can be a part of this international delight of food, fun and fame!

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Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning

Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence

By: Mara Lee Grayson

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Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning

Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence

By: Mara Lee Grayson

To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material. The trigger warning, a brief statement information students of potential distressing or re-traumatizing content, has been offered as a way to do just that, but this practice is neither as effective nor as equitable as it may seem. Intentionally or indirectly, the trigger warning limits the extent to which students are encouraged to engage in transformative critical conversations and reinforces the culture of silence that prevails in many educational spaces. Emerging as a response to trauma amid an educational environment that professes student-responsiveness and celebrates diversity yet perpetuates the marginalization of many of the bodies in the classroom, the trigger warning is not the problem – but it is not the solution either. What does this mean for the faculty members teaching this new generation of college students? And the teachers who find this generation’s younger siblings in their high school classrooms? Drawing upon original research, Mara Lee Grayson tracks the rise of the trigger warning within historical and contemporary educational contexts; explores its potentialities, limitations, and abuses as praxis; and offers curricular suggestions for high school and college instructors seeking to implement equitable, antiracist pedagogies that simultaneously encourage students’ well-being, provoke intellectual and emotional growth, and challenge the cultures of silence that maintain inequity on school campuses.

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Beavers

By: Wil Mara

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Beavers

By: Wil Mara

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, diet, life cycle, and conservation status of the beaver.

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Blobjects and Beyond

The New Fluidity in Design

By: Steven Skov Holt,Mara Holt Skov,Phil Patton,Bruce Sterling

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Blobjects and Beyond

The New Fluidity in Design

By: Steven Skov Holt,Mara Holt Skov,Phil Patton,Bruce Sterling

Turning away from the hard angles and edges of conventional modernism, bliobjects are the design of now, and the future. Blobjects & Beyond is the first survey of the explosion of amorphic, organic, and curvaceous design. A formless from with roots in Surrealism and the kidney-shaped motifs of the 1950s, the ever more biological blobject has come into its own, embodying and reflecting the new international ethos of fluidity." "Authors Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov - curators of a major exhibition of blobjects at the San Jose Museum of Art - and contributors Phil Patton and Bruce Sterling, parse the various manifestations of the blobject, bringing together the realms of art, architecture, industrial design, graphics, digital design, furniture, and pop culture. As a counterpoint to the effusive popularity of the blobject, the authors also address more recent, post-9/11 forms that are mutated and disturbed, dangerous and intimidating - the dark side of the blobject." "A manifesto for fluidity across disciplines, cultures, and international boundaries, Blobjects & Beyond documents the first major design language to bridge the last millennium with the new one."--BOOK JACKET.

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Lonely Planet Boston

By: Mara Vorhees

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Lonely Planet Boston

By: Mara Vorhees

Lonely Planets Boston is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all that Boston has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Check out the revolutionary Freedom Trail, watch a game at Fenway Park and soak in the ambiance at Harvard Square; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planets Boston Travel Guide: Whats NEW in this edition? Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of Bostons best experiences and where to have them What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas Pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card* with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel Planning tools for family travellers Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Eating & drinking in Boston - we reveal the dishes and drinks you have to try Bostons beaches - whether youre looking for relaxation or activities, we break down the best beaches to visit and provide safety information Color maps and images throughout Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics Over 32 maps Covers Charlestown, West End & North End, Beacon Hill & Boston Common, Downtown & Waterfront, South End & Chinatown, Back Bay, Kenmore Square & Fenway, Seaport District & South Boston, Cambridge and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planets Boston, our most comprehensive guide to Boston, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Visiting Boston for a week or less? Lonely Planets Pocket Boston is a handy-sized guide focused on the citys cant-miss experiences. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets Eastern USA guide for a comprehensive look at all the region has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

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What Should I Do? If There Is a Fire

By: Wil Mara

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What Should I Do? If There Is a Fire

By: Wil Mara

Readers learn what to do if they are caught in a burning building, how to prepare for such events ahead of time, and how to react to firefighters.

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Lonely Planet New England

By: Lonely Planet,Benedict Walker,Amy C Balfour,Gregor Clark,Adam Karlin,Brian Kluepfel,Regis St Louis,Mara Vorhees,Isabel Albiston,Robert Balkovich

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Lonely Planet New England

By: Lonely Planet,Benedict Walker,Amy C Balfour,Gregor Clark,Adam Karlin,Brian Kluepfel,Regis St Louis,Mara Vorhees,Isabel Albiston,Robert Balkovich

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's New England is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Mount spectacular summits and drive ocean roads, tantalize your taste buds with succulent seafood and sweet maple syrup, and relish history and high culture - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of New England and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's New England: NEW pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transportation info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel NEW Accommodations feature gathers all the information you need to plan where to rest your head NEW Where to Stay in Boston map is your at-a-glance guide to accommodation options in each neighbourhood Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Covers Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard, Central Massachusetts & the Berkshires, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New England is our most comprehensive guide to New England, and is perfect for discovering both popular and off-the-beaten-path experiences. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's USA for an in-depth guide to the country. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Environmental Accounting and Reporting

Theory and Practice

By: Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli,Mara Del Baldo,Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva

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Environmental Accounting and Reporting

Theory and Practice

By: Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli,Mara Del Baldo,Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, which affects the development and application of environmental accounting and reporting, as a basis for evaluating current achievements and the future steps that need to be taken to develop and spread environmental accounting. The book is unique in presenting exemplary cases from different emerging and developed countries. It is a valuable resource for theorists in the field, practitioners in companies, as well as investors and other stakeholders. Moreover, it provides students with the necessary theoretical constructs, empirical studies as well as practical and managerial tools to allow for a quick orientation in the methodology, techniques and selected practices used in environmental accounting and reporting.

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LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness

Chroniqueers in Southern Europe

By: Mara Pieri

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LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness

Chroniqueers in Southern Europe

By: Mara Pieri

Drawing on theory and empirical research, this book provides an analysis of the intersections between LGBTQ+ identification and chronic illness. Chapters focus on the theoretical meaning of chronic illness as a queer notion, as well as the lived experiences of chronically ill LGBTQ+ people. The author analyzes chronic illness as an experience that interrogates the normative notions of time, (in)visibility, and disability. Interweaving notions of heteronormativity and able-bodiedness as interwoven and mutually dependent, this book argues that the experience of chronic illness through LGBTQ+ embodiment presents the potential to imagine bodies differently. This book will be useful for scholars and students in Disability Studies, Queer Studies, and Gender Studies.

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Do You Feel Anger?

By: Mara Nelson-Greenberg

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Do You Feel Anger?

By: Mara Nelson-Greenberg

Sofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency—and clearly, she has her work cut out for her. These employees can barely identify what an emotion is, much less practice deep, radical compassion for others. And while they painstakingly stumble towards enlightenment, someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen. An outrageous comedy about the absurdity—and the danger—of a world where some people’s feelings matter more than others’.

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Lonely Planet Boston

By: Lonely Planet,Mara Vorhees

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Lonely Planet Boston

By: Lonely Planet,Mara Vorhees

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Boston is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Follow the Freedom Trail through the center of Boston, tracing the events around the War of Independence, catch a baseball game at the iconic Fenway Park, and explore the bookstores and boutiques of Harvard Square - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Boston and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Boston: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - sports, history, art, food, literature, music, architecture, animals. Covers Charlestown, Cambridge, the West End, Beacon Hill, Boston Common, the Waterfront, Chinatown, the South End, Chinatown, Fenway, and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Boston is our most comprehensive guide to Boston, and is perfect for discovering both popular and off-the-beaten-path experiences. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's New England guide for an in-depth look at the region. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Dogmania

Amazing But True Canine Tales

By: Allan Zullo,Mara Bovsun

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Dogmania

Amazing But True Canine Tales

By: Allan Zullo,Mara Bovsun

Describes the exploits of more than 150 courageous and canny dogs.

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The Code

Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

By: Margaret O'Mara

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The Code

Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

By: Margaret O'Mara

One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects. Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the forties to the present, O'Mara has wrestled one of the most fateful developments in modern American history into magnificent narrative form. She is on the ground with all of the key tech companies, chronicling the evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector and its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressive, O'Mara has penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological innovation to market, or not. The transformation of big tech into the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of our hopes and dreams--and, increasingly, our nightmares--can be understood, in Margaret O'Mara's masterful hands, as the story of one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its fate is the fate of us all.

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